HiRez Poll West, Dottie - HOUSE OF LOVE & IF IT'S ALL RIGHT WITH YOU/JUST WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR [SACD]

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Please post your thoughts and comments on this 2019 Multichannel SACD release from Dutton Vocalion, available to purchase here: https://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/proddetail.php?prod=CDLK4622



House of Love
LP APL1 0543 (1974) STEREO APD1 0543 QUADRAPHONIC

1. Lay Back Lover (Pippin; Van Hoy)
2. Everybody Bring a Song (Backer)
3. Last Time I Saw Him (Masser; Sawyer)
4. Just the Other Side of Nowhere (Kristofferson)
5. House of Love (O’Dell)
6. Good Lovin’ You (Gatlin)
7. I Still Can’t Believe You’re Gone (Nelson)
8. I Like to Hear the Rain (Harvey)
9. Does it Matter (Fargo)
10. Love as Long as We Can (West; Metcalf; Davis)

If it's All Right with You/Just What I've Been Looking For
LP LSA 3189 (1973) STEREO APD1 0151 QUADRAPHONIC

11. Just What I’ve Been Looking For (O’Dell)
12. Delta Dawn (Harvey; Collins)
13. Killing Me Softly with His Song (Fox; Gimbel)
14. If it’s All Right with You (O’Dell; Henley)
15. Try to Win a Friend (Gatlin)
16. It was Love While it Lasted (Lane; Henley)
17. Short and Sweet (Shaver)
18. It Sure Seemed Right (J & M Russell)
19. Bitter they Are, Harder they Fall (Gatlin)
20. I’m Your Country Girl (West; Davis)

Remastered from the original analogue tapes by Michael J. Dutton

Multi-ch Stereo
All tracks available in stereo and multi-channel

SA-CD
This hybrid CD can be played on any standard CD players

 

[GOS]

Finally getting around to a listen. Another country winner from Dutton. Just a real clean, nice sounding version. I'd say, this one maybe doesn't have the warmth that some of the other titles have (Breakaway/Garfunkel) for example, but more the genre than anything.

I really enjoy her cover of "Killing Me Softly With His Song". I'd almost call it beautiful. I guess I'll rate this an 8.
Good stuff!

 

[par4ken]

I'm not a much of a fan of more traditional country music but DV's reasonably priced 2fers are hard to resist!

I enjoyed this more than I had expected. Sound quality is very good to excellent. The surround is rather variable however. Because the instrumentation is sparse in some places the surround becomes almost non-existent. I suppose that they could have added some ambience there to fill out the mix more. At other times with denser instrumentation the mix is fantastic! I'll give it an eight.

 

[4-earredwonder]

As somewhat of a D~V completist, I [reluctantly] added this two~fer to my pile. As I type these words, Dottie is warbling in the background and I genuinely like what I'm hearing. For a country album, great utilization of the surrounds and her country/western accompaniment is just what I needed in these 'trying' times.

I voted an 8!